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Tin Soldiers and Ashcroft's Comin'...
...and Conservatives Go to Sleep!
Freepers, gun nuts look the other way as militia leader arrested by Bush-Ashcroft BATF
By Tamara Baker
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He does virtually the only drive-time liberal radio show in America, and you get to find out all sorts of cute little things, little bits of news the GOPMedia prefers not to give us...such as this little tidbit from Kentucky:
The Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco and Firearms seized guns from the home of the commander of the Kentucky State Militia yesterday, who said he will do "whatever it takes" to get the guns back.
Don York, spokesman for the BATF, said agents confiscated guns from the Garrard County home of Charlie Puckett after receiving information that he was a felon in possession of firearms. Puckett cooperated with agents executing the search warrant, he said.
York could not comment on what types of guns were taken from Puckett, how the BATF found out he had guns in his home, or why it took the BATF so long to find out that Puckett, who has been commander of the Kentucky State Militia for 12 years, committed a felony in 1966.
Now, if this had happened under Bill Clinton, you can bet your 401(k) plan that this would have been all over the conservative media!
Limbaugh would be dusting off his "jack-booted thug" clichés, his lesser imitators would follow suit, and the good NRA members over at FreeRepublic.com (warning: don't ever visit that site without first going through Anonymizer.com, unless you want to experience FreeRepublic's nasty cootie-cookies) would be going into fits of ecstatic rage.
But, since we now have a REPUBLICAN in the White House (just as so many of these guys seem to forget that Ruby Ridge and Waco were the products of folks appointed by a Republican president), there's utter silence over in the
Freeperland Kargo Kult.
As of 8:00 pm December 3rd, 2001, there was not one single reference on the Freeper discussion boards concerning Mr. Puckett's stupidly thuggish arrest.
And when I say "stupidly thuggish", folks, I'm not kidding. Get this:
Puckett of Lancaster, called the seizure theft of private property and a violation of his rights. The 1968 federal gun control act that prohibits felons from owning guns does not apply to Puckett because he was convicted of the felony two years before the law's enactment, he said.
I'd say he has a point there.
But wait, there's more:
Puckett said he was convicted of a felony after stealing food from a grocery store in 1966 in Virginia. He and several friends who were hungry took more than $100 in food from the store, he said. The BATF described the felony as nonviolent.
This is straight out of "Les Miserables", people.
Mr. Puckett, playing the role of Jean Valjean, swipes food so he and his friends can survive, only to find themselves convicted felons. Worse, the same cruel, Javert-like jack-booted thugs that imprisoned him are now attacking him a good thirty-odd years after he paid off, with interest, his debt to society!
But Mr. Puckett shouldn't expect too much in the way of tea and sympathy from his alleged comrades-in-arms in the "conservative" movement -- not unless it can be proven that the arresting BATF officer was a registered Democrat.
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